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They attempted to assassinate the memory of those whose bodies their friends had massacred, and to consider their murder as a less formal act of justice.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “They attempted to assassinate the memory of those whose bodies their friends had massacred, and to consider their murder…”
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Burke condemns the attempts to tarnish the memory of victims of violence while justifying their murder as justice.
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